Check if element exists python selenium

You can implement try/except block as below to check whether element present or not:

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementExceptiontry:    element=driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("text")except NoSuchElementException:    print("No element found")

or check the same with one of find_elements_...() methods. It should return you empty list or list of elements matched by passed selector, but no exception in case no elements found:

elements=driver.find_elements_by_partial_link_text("text")if not elements:    print("No element found")  else:    element = elements[0]  

Sometimes the element does not appear at once, for this case we need to use explicit wait:

browser = webdriver.Chrome()wait = WebDriverWait(browser, 5)def is_element_exist(text):    try:        wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, text)))    except TimeoutException:        return False

Solution without try/ except:

def is_element_exist(text):    elements = wait.until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, text)))    return None if elements else False

How explicit wait works you can read here.

Imports:

from selenium import webdriverfrom selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWaitfrom selenium.webdriver.common.by import Byfrom selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC